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Schlosser, Herb 193

Schmidt, Mary 136, 137

Schmidt, Paul 509

Schneider, Danny 108

Schneider, Len 108

Schneider, Peter: C.I.'s friendship with and views on 3, 5, 125, 273–4; friendship with Jim Gates 5, 108, 167, 248, 273–4, 437, 487; involvement in Vedanta 5, 85, 93, 108, 152, 158, 159, 161, 225–6, 237, 274, 305, 353, 434, 437; appearance 84–5, 219; Don Bachardy's drawings of 84–5; conscientious objector 125; at Trabuco 191; college education 219, 226; letters to Swami 225–6; poetry 273; initiated by Swami 353; visits Claremont with C.I. 355;
799

Schneiderman, David and Beth 491

Schnitzler, Arthur,
Casanova's Homecoming
395

Schubach, Scott 259, 266,
799

Schulman, Richard 12–13, 57, 59, 62, 63, 77, 91

Schuman, Howard 63, 71, 75, 323, 506, 510, 511, 514,
800

Schwed, Greg 188

Schwed, Peter 123, 126, 169, 188,
800

Scobie, W.I. (William, Bill): C.I. borrows tape recorder from 457;
The Advocate
article on C.I. 476
n
, 485, 489; and Jonathan Fryer 484–5; socializing with C.I. 498, 501, 505; on
Christopher and His Kind
522; and Proposition 6 (Briggs Initiative) 569, 587, 599; and Tony Sarver's illness and death 637, 642, 654, 661;
800

Scofield, Paul 62
n
, 91–2;
King Lear
215–16

Scotland 512–13

Scott Gilbert, Clement: and proposed English productions of
A Meeting by the River
8, 11, 12–13, 16, 17, 24, 25, 44, 48, 50, 55, 57, 59, 61–2, 63, 76–7, 79–80, 89–90, 91, 94, 176–7, 238, 394; in California 176–7;
800

Scott, Susan 505

Searle, Alan 2, 286, 533, 607,
800

Seattle: Vedanta Center 269; Don Bachardy's show 487

Seldis, Henry 460

Sellin, Germany 668

Selznick, David O. 104, 253,
800–801

Selznick, Jennifer
see
Jones, Jennifer
Separate Tables
(film) 51

September 30, 1955
(film) 506

Sert, Misia 646

Sète, France 32

sex films 303–4

sex toys 543

Seymour, Jane 347, 381,
801

Shadduck, Jim 386

Shadduck, Tom 490–91, 492, 529, 541, 627–8, 633, 640, 661–2,
801

Shaffer, Anthony 146, 490
n

Shakespeare, William:
Hamlet
120, 499, 579;
Henry V
449;
Julius Caesar
120, 121, 543;
Macbeth
532, 579, 688;
A Midsummer Night's Dream
385–6;
Much Ado About Nothing
306;
Sonnets
605

Shane, Alan 441–2

Shanghai Gesture, The
(film) 88, 90

Shankara,
The Crest Jewel of Discrimination
47, 60

Shasta, Dick (pseud.) 107, 125–6, 178, 259, 266, 312, 316, 323

Shaw, Adam (Irwin Shaw's son) 337–8

Shaw, George Bernard:
Androcles and the Lion
571;
Don Juan in Hell
262;
Pygmalion
610;
The Apple Cart
25, 383–4;
Widowers' Houses
51, 318; see also
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God

Shaw, Irwin 337,
801

Shaw, Paul (accountant) 237, 239

Shawn, Dick 595

Shearer, Norma 582

Sheinberg, Sidney: character 130; and “Frankenstein” television film 130, 179
n
, 186, 187, 188, 193, 199, 213, 222, 237, 242, 247, 256, 260, 286;
802

Shepard, Richard F. 296

Shepard, Sam,
Red Cross
44–5

Sherin, Edwin 445, 450, 451

Sherwin, David 7
n

Shimabukuro, Wayne 675

Shingleton, Wilfred 316–17

Shivananda, Swami 365

Shone, Richard 26, 74, 77,
802

Shooting, The
(film) 207

Shraddhananda, Swami 518

Shroyer, Frederick 234, 433, 441,
802

Shubert Theater, Los Angeles 387

Sida, Mick 315, 319, 320, 335

Sidebotham, Mr. (Isherwood family solicitor) 616

Sieber, Rudolf 485, 487, 489

Siegel, Benjamin 118

Siegel, Eli 175–6

Signoret, Simone 347, 497

“Silent Night” (song), television program about 534

Silverstein, Michael 128–9

Simmonds, John 510

Simon, Jennifer
see
Jones, Jennifer Simon, Neil 589

Simon, Norton 176, 235, 276, 304, 376, 450–51,
802–3
; Don Bachardy's drawing of 363, 374, 378, 411

Simon, Richard 48–9, 123, 202, 205, 213, 330,
803

Simon and Schuster (publishers) 125, 126, 127, 169–70, 173, 218, 267,
802

Simpson, Colin,
The Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia
177

Simpson, Wallis 330

Sin of Father Mouret, The
(film) 513

Single Man, A
(C.I.): themes xi, xvii, 98; title xi; praised by Jean Ross 66; possible film versions 171, 176, 177, 215; proposed BBC radio play 176; S.N. Behrman on 390; Claude Summers's paper on 490; recording of reading from 521; special edition 629; writing 645

Siporin, Thomas Victor 660

Sister Carrie
(film) 592

Sister Lalita (
earlier
Carrie Mead Wyckoff) 622,
803

Sisters of Revolution
(film) 65–6

Skipworth, Dean 622

Skylab I
(space station) 613

Slade School of Fine Art, London 209

Slaikjer, Don 553, 554

slang and jargon 2, 101, 162, 217, 258, 360

Sleep, Wayne: Hockney painting of x; C.I. socializes with in London 18, 29, 45, 55, 56, 327–8, 513, 515;
A Midsummer Night's Dream
49–50;
Façade
50; dances naked on restaurant tables 55, 319; touring in New York 58;
The Tales of Beatrix Potter
179; acting career 328; breaks Nijinsky's record for
entrechats
328; C.I. sees hustler who resembles 355; Don Bachardy draws 513;
803

Sleuth
(film) 146

Smight, Jack 292, 293–4, 309, 312, 318, 321, 380–81, 397, 406, 466,
803

Smith, Cecil 406

Smith, Craig 594

Smith, David 47,
803

Smith, Dodie
see
Beesley, Dodie Smith

Smith, Emily Machell (C.I.'s grandmother; Emmy) 14, 123,
803–4

Smith, Frederick Machell (C.I.'s grandfather) 125

Smith, Jessie Willcox 184

Smith, John (neighbor) 533, 534

Smith, Katharine (Moffat/Townend; Kate) 50, 68, 335,
804

Smith, Maggie 360, 491, 495,
804

Smith, Reginald Donald 516

Smith, Stevie 542

smog 113, 437, 582, 619, 649, 677

Snow, C.P. 208

Society of Authors' Representatives 47

Society of David 111–12, 161

Soho Theatre, London 44

solar energy 541

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander,
The First Circle
x, 14, 16, 56, 78

Something for Everyone
(film) 101, 139

Sondheim, Stephen:
Follies
171;
Pacific Overtures
508

Sonsini, John 467

Sontag, Susan 509; “Notes on ‘Camp'” xxxv– xxxvi, xxxvii

Sorel, Paul: and Christopher Wood 142, 475, 478, 491, 578, 654–5; on Tony Bower's murder 243; C.I. socializes with 491, 499, 504, 505, 506, 507, 508, 518, 578, 584, 633, 654; character 550, 578, 582; Don Bachardy's painting of 550; financial problems 569, 578, 584, 605, 633, 654–5;
804

Sorenson, Don 583

Sound of Music, The
(film) 571

Southcombe, Bryan 498

Soviet Union
see
USSR

space exploration 541;
Apollo 13
53,
693
;
Apollo
14
138;
Skylab I
613

Spain 444, 517–18

Spanish Civil War 72–3

Spar, Albert 239

Spectator, The
(magazine) 213

Speer, Albert,
Inside the Third Reich
249, 258, 313

Spender, Elizabeth (Lizzie) 319,
804

Spender, Natasha Litvin 33, 194, 322, 513, 514, 516,
804–5

Spender, Stephen: on marriage 25; in France 194; review of C.I.'s
Kathleen and Frank
208; Don Bachardy dreams about 262; in London 319, 322, 513, 514, 516; and Cyril Connolly 322; cables news of Jean Ross's death 372; in New York 425–6, 509, 510; in New Orleans 475; proposed biography of Auden 475; rewriting of autobiography 476; Bachardy draws 514; speaks at National Portrait Gallery 515; in California 566, 567, 668; Bachardy's dislike of 567; misreported cancer 617, 618; publication of letters to C.I. 624; knighthood 688;
805

The Corporal
616;
Trial of a Judge
567, 616;
World Within World
446, 476

Spigelgass, Leonard (Lenny) 222, 364, 369,
805

Spinetti, Victor 19

Spitz, Mark 280

Splendor in the Grass
(film) 490

Spock, Benjamin 85, 147

Spriegel, Dewey 453, 617

Stallybrass, Oliver 491

Standing, Sarah 256
n

Stangos, Nicolas (Nikos) 25, 510, 515,
805

Stanley, Leonard 113

Stans, Maurice 358–9

Stanton, Larry 12

Stanwyck, Barbara 96, 115

Star is Born, A
(film) 403

“Star-Spangled Night for Human Rights” (1977) 548–9

Stark, Peggy 512
n

Stark, Robin 512

Stay Hungry
(film) 518

Steegmuller, Francis,
Flaubert in Egypt
358, 556

Steen, Mike 179, 184,
805

Steiger, Rod 617

Stein, Gertrude 516;
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
136

Steinbeck, John,
The Grapes of Wrath
678

Stendhal,
Le Rouge et le Noir
653

Stepford Wives, The
(film) 439, 441

Stephens, Dale 47

“Steptoe and Son” (television series) 13

Sterling, Rod 270

Stern, Alan 651, 671, 673,
805

Sternberg, Dr. Thomas 493, 494, 497

Stevens, Marti 1, 143, 144, 146, 471, 519, 632,
805–6

Stevens, Norman 515

Stevenson, Robert Louis: house and grave 3, 49;
A Child's Garden of Verses
184;
In the South Seas
562

Stock, Roger 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 46, 63

Stockholm, Sweden 70

Stockport, England 13, 330–33, 342, 513, 542

Stockwell, Dean 79, 80

Stoker, Bram:
Dracula
165;
Dracula's Guest
165;
The Jewel of Seven Stars
265;
Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving
165

Stoker, Douglas 207

Stoltenberg, John 407

Stone, Christopher 495

Stoppard, Tom 52, 61, 63;
Jumpers
330;
Travesties
511
n
, 539–40

Story of Adele H., The
(film) 493

Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, England 512

Stowe, Harriet Beecher,
Uncle Tom's Cabin
553

Strachan, Alan,
Yahoo
542
n Stranger, The
(film) 252

Strangers on a Train
(film) 642

Strasser, Robin 227, 293, 298, 306,
806

Straus, Roger and Dorothea 509

Stravinsky, Igor: death and funeral xxiii, 158–9, 159–60, 163, 168–9, 173, 189, 278; and Robert Craft 102
n
, 247; C.I. dreams of 237; memorial ballet festival 247;
Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship
(Craft) 279; Don Bachardy's drawing of 377; and William Caskey 637;
806

Stravinsky, Vera: C.I. and Don Bachardy visit in New York following Igor's death 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 166, 168–9, 170, 173–4, 218, 221; and Bill Brown and Paul Wonner 247, 300; C.I. and Bachardy socialize with on subsequent trips to New York 300, 304, 509, 510, 652–3; relations with Robert Craft 304; declining health 621, 652–3;
806

Strensall, Yorkshire, England 84

Stromberg, Hunt: and “Frankenstein” television film 106, 114, 115, 118, 125–6, 130, 132, 133, 134, 138, 140, 144, 149, 151, 158, 160–61, 162, 177, 178, 185, 186, 187, 188, 192–3, 199, 211, 213, 214, 222, 227, 228, 231, 233, 235, 242, 247, 256, 286, 290, 292–3, 294, 309, 312, 316, 318, 323, 347, 357, 358, 380–81, 404, 406; relationship with “Dick Shasta”107, 125–6, 178, 259, 266, 312, 316; work with Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell 162; and “The Mummy” television film 199, 214, 221, 226–7, 242, 257, 265, 328, 385; drinking 242, 347, 358; proposes
A Tale of Two Cities
television project 439;
806–7

Strong, Roy 391

Stuart, Gloria 504

Sudhir 373

Sudhira (
earlier
Helen Kennedy) 448, 452, 453, 454,
807

Sullivan, Dan 232–3

Summers, Claude 490, 618,
807

Sunday Bloody Sunday
(film) 311

Sunday Telegraph, The
208, 644

Sunday Times, The
42, 71, 149

Sunshine, Norman 441–2

Susskind, David, “What It Means To Be a Homosexual” 175–6

Swahananda, Swami 179, 486
n
, 504, 518, 540, 547, 623,
807

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